Thursday, January 19, 2017

Jan 20

2Nite - Grades 7/8 Dance @ HUMS- 7-9pm. $5 admission. No permission slip needed.We are looking for your input on offering opportunities for parents/guardians to learn more about Proficiency-Based Learning. Please click here to share your thoughts. We're just two weeks away from the start of Waterbury Winterfest and many of the activities will be of interest to students at CBMS. Events during the 10-day schedule include the Christmas Tree Bonfire and skating party, broom ball, Fun Run and micro-drone racing, Boy Scout adventure challenge, poetry slam, capture the flag, chess tournament, puppet show, snowshoeing, snowman building, sled hockey and snow football. The full schedule is at http://www.waterburywinterfest.com/

PG-13 movies- You should expect that if any movie or movie clip from a PG-13 rated movie is to be shown in any class, you will be notified in advance.

Girls on the Run's new middle school program, Heart & Sole, is hopefully returning to CBMS but we need COACHES and volunteers to help get the program started this year! The 10-week Heart & Sole curriculum is filled with activities to support the emotional and physical health of the participants with a 5k event culminating event held in June. Heart and Sole is a spring program that starts at the end of March and runs through the first week of June. Sessions meet twice a week for 90 minutes each. You do not need to have running experience to coach. Coaches can commit to either one or two sessions a week. Please email Melinda Anderman at manderman@wwsu.org if you are interested in coaching.

Parents of 6th and 7th graders: Details on the 7th and 8th grade exchange with Harwood Union Middle School can be found by clicking here. Note the strict March 5th deadline for applying to the exchange.

CLICK HERE to sign up to bring a dish! Remember – we ask that all ingredients be listed on your dish. Thank you in advance for contributing to this special evening. If you are interested in giving a 10-minute presentation to highlight a country or cultural custom important to you, please contact Pam Clapp at 802-522-6755 or pamelaclapp@hotmail.com. Suggested donation at the door is $5 per person and $20 per family. All donations go to the CBMS-PTO Fund to support their ongoing mission of enriching education, engaging community and enhancing connections. If you don’t have time to cook, just come! All are welcome! QUESTIONS? Georgiana Birmingham @ 802-279-9301 / georgianahelene@gmail.com or Pam Clapp @802-522-6755 / pamelaclapp@hotmail.com

Ponderable: “Work on [a new social compact] has to start with every school teaching children digital civics.
And that begins with teaching them that the Internet is an open sewer of untreated, unfiltered
information, where they need to bring skepticism and critical thinking to everything they read
and basic civic decency to everything they write.” Thomas Friedman in “Online and Scared” in The New York Times, January 11, 2017. Full article is here.